Netflix’s gleeful horror-comedy Dead Talents Society wears a lot of its influences out in the open. Writer-director John Hsu talked with Polygon earlier this month about how YouTube streamers, ’90s Taiwanese pop music, Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue and Tokyo Godfathers, and real Asian urban legends like “the little girl in red” helped inspire his manic movie about the capitalist grind of the afterlife. In Dead Talents Society, ghosts endlessly chase...

March is finally behind us, and with its passing comes the arrival of spring and all its splendors! There’s a ton of exciting new releases to catch in theaters this month, from the returns of major directors, like Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds, to escapist genre fare like The Accountant 2 and The Legend of Ochi. Looking for something to watch from the comfort of your own...

Each week on Polygon, we round up the most notable new releases to streaming and VOD, highlighting the biggest and best new movies for you to watch at home. This week, The Monkey, the new black comedy horror thriller from director Osgood Perkins (Longlegs), screeches and bangs its way onto VOD. That’s not all that’s new to rent and purchase this week, as Steven Soderbergh’s spy thriller Black Bag, starring...

In a YouTube video Friday, Dropout.tv CEO Sam Reich announced plans to increase the cost of subscriptions to the streaming service starting May 7. Monthly subscription costs will go from $5.99 to $6.99, while annual subscriptions will go from $59.99 to $69.99. However, anyone with a current Dropout subscription will remain locked into the legacy price until they change or cancel their subscription. This means if you want to secure...

There’s a line early on in the psychological thriller Gazer that’s been running through my mind ever since I finished watching it. “How can time heal, if you can’t even feel time passing?” a character rhetorically asks the film’s protagonist. As the plot unfolds, that question transforms into a thesis for Gazer as a whole: It’s an eerie meditation on the discontinuity between time and grief, and the impermanence of...

Warner Bros. dropped a new sneak-peek teaser for James Gunn’s Superman on Thursday out of CinemaCon, and it’s mostly just the same trailer we saw back in December, with the same quick-cut looks at Hawkgirl (Isabela Merced), Mister Terrific (Edi Gathegi), Guy “worst haircut in the ’verse” Gardner (Nathan Fillion), Metamorpho (Anthony Carrigan), a giant kaiju that might be Jimmy Olsen, and more. The difference is, there’s an extra two...